Quotes About Self-worth

I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be happy?

I thought you weren't afraid. I never am --but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

It was consoling, though, when Nicole remarked, apropos of a distraught saleswoman: Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do - they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do--they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

But I believe you are absolutely incapable of jealousy except as hurt vanity.

and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself. .

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in her life.

Sometimes when I've felt particularly radiant I've though, why should this be wasted on one man.

Tu orgullo es lo único que posees, y si dejas que lo manipule un hombre que tiene que manipular una docena de orgullos antes de almorzar, estás aceptando un montón de decepciones que un profesional hecho y derecho ha aprendido a evitar.

Foarte puÈ›ini dintre cei care subliniaz? inutilitatea vieÈ›ii observ? inutilitatea lor înÈ™ile. Probabil cred c?, proclamând inutilitatea vieÈ›ii, reuÈ™esc s?-È™i salveze propia valoare de la ruin? - dar nu reulÈ™esc.

Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M. If

Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.

No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

God in heaven, was this what I was put on earth for, to be a receptacle for men's lust?

To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

Toda a gente que eu conheço e que fala comigo Nunca teve um ato ridículo, nunca sofreu enxovalho, Nunca foi senão príncipe - todos eles príncipes - na vida...

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

Caesar aptly defined what ambition is all about when he said: 'Better to be first in the village than the second in Rome!' I'm nothing in the village and nothing in any Rome. The corner grocer is at least respected from the Rua da Assunção to the Rua da Vitória; he's the Caesar of a square city block. Me superior to him? In what, if nothingness admits neither superiority nor inferiority, nor even comparison?

I've done nothing nor will I ever do anything useful to justify my existence.

O prazer é para os cães, o bem-estar material é para os escravos; o homem tem a honra e o domínio.

Any criticism at all which depresses you to the extent that you feel you cannot ever write anything worth anything is from the Devil and to subject yourself to it is for you an occasion of sin. In you the talent is there and you are expected to use it. Whether the work itself is completely successful, or whether you ever get any worldly success out of it, is a matter of no concern to you. It is like the Japanese swordsmen who are indifferent to getting slain in the duel.